What does the Common Sandpiper eat?
Actitis hypoleucos
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Diet overview
Insectivore
How it forages
Forages by picking insects and other small invertebrates from the surface of water, mud, or stones. It often runs short distances, stops, bobs, and then pecks. Diet includes aquatic and terrestrial insects (beetles, flies, larvae), small crustaceans, molluscs, and occasionally small fish.
When it feeds
Diurnal, though may forage during moonlit nights.
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